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Park Orchards Community House
Photograph, Outside roof construction of the new POCH extension, Circa 1993
Park Orchards Community Centre extensions and official opening -
Park Orchards Community House
Photograph, Outside wall construction of the new POCH extension, Circa 1993
Park Orchards Community Centre extensions and official opening -
Park Orchards Community House
Photograph, Outside wall and roof construction of the new POCH extension, Circa 1993
Park Orchards Community Centre extensions and official opening -
Park Orchards Community House
Photograph, Outside wall construction of the new POCH extension, Circa 1993
Park Orchards Community Centre extensions and official opening -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Chipperfield's Boat House & Floating Pontoon, 1934
Living with natural processes was frequently a challenge to early European settlers and later residents of what was in the 1850s administered by the Borondara Road Board. This was compounded by the area being bounded on three sides by rivers (Yarra River, Koonung Creek and Gardiner's Creek). In 1849, the historian James Bonwick recorded that "our district [Kew] suffered considerably. Mr Wade speaks of 80 acres, out of 100 acres of his cultivated paddock, covered by water." Newspapers continued to describe major flooding in Kew in 1863, 1869, 1878, 1880, 1889, 1891, 1916 and 1934. While the construction of the Upper Yarra dam in 1957 reduced the levels of flowing downstream, local and riverine floods continue. A number of boat houses operated on both sides of the River Yarra at Kew. Chipperfield's Boat House was located on the Yarra near the corner of Kilby and Willsmere Roads.The Kew Historical Society's pictures and map collections testify to the impact of flooding in the district. They have historical importance in documenting the extent of flooding in the district and its affects on homes, services and recreation. Numerous photographs record flooding throughout the Twentieth Century.Floating pontoon at Chipperfield's Boat House where the canoes were stored, taken in 1934, presumably before the 1934 Flood. This area of the Yarra was shallow with a number of mid river sandbanks and a popular swimming area for locals.yarra river, chipperfield's boathouse, pontoon -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Administrative record, Midway Arcade Construction, Ringwood, Victoria - 1955
Two typewritten pages and ten pages of handwritten notes and sketches - Schedule of materials to be used in the Shopping Arcade at 147 Whitehorse Road, Ringwood, being built for Ringwood Investments Pty. Ltd. Architect - P.E. Jorgensen, Collins House, 360 Collins Street, Melbourne C.1. Consulting Engineer - W.L. Irwin, 441 St.Kilda Road Melbourne. Rubber stamped Borough of Ringwood approval subject to Building Regulations and By-Laws (signed) Building Survyor 24/5/1955. -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Professor Jim and Barbara Pittard House (1977)
Image 26 Professor Jim and Barbara Pittard House - Commenced 1977 Designed by Alistair Knox Built by Maurice Wilson, Tony Ryan and the owners The Alistair Knox Collection The Alistair Knox Collection is a series of mounted enlarged photos of mud brick houses and related subjects. The collection is understood to have been put together by Alistair Knox although it is the work of several unacknowledged photographers. For some years it was held by the Building Department of the former Eltham Shire Council and was then passed to our Society for safekeeping. Some of the photos have been used in Knox's books and from time to time some of them have been part of various historical displays. As far as we know there has not been a public display of the whole collection which numbers about forty photographs. The collection has been copied on to slides for the purpose of this meeting and to be retained as part of the Society's pictorial collection. Alistair Knox 1912 - 1986 is acknowledged as the founder of Eltham's mud brick building movement. Many of the buildings shown in the collection are of his design and he was also involved with the construction of several of them. Others are the work of his contemporaries and associates such as Peter Glass, Gordon Ford, and John Harcourt. (EDHS Newsletter No. 145 July 2002)Handwritten notes in pencil re details of building, year of construction, owner, designer, builder, etcaistair knox collection, houses, jim pittard, maurice wilson, mud brick construction, professor and mrs jim pittard house, tony ryan -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Magazine - Magazine Article, Southdown Press, Living in style in mudbricks by Kate Newman, New Idea, April 29, pp10-11, 1978
... mudbrick construction Mudbrick houses mudbricks Southdown Press ...Article with images about Alistair Knox and building in mudbrickalistair knox, alistair knox design, eltham, margot knox, mudbrick construction, mudbrick houses, mudbricks -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Photograph - Former Kew Police Station : Wall and chimney, 1996
A civic campaign for new public offices developed in Kew in the 1880s. After much deliberation, the location chosen was the junction of Bulleen and Cotham Roads. The buildings were designed by George Watson and John Henry Harvey, architects within the Department of Public Works (Victoria). Building was commenced in 1887, and after one year, the buildings were opened. The Post Office was transferred to the new Commonwealth Government in 1901. The Police Station and Court House, sold by the Victorian Government to the City of Boroondara in 2007, are now a community cultural centre and performing arts venue.The buildings were listed on the Victorian Heritage Register Register (HO885) in 1991. They are historically and architecturally significant to the State of Victoria because Watson and Harvey's designs exhibit diversity in integrating civil offices, they accommodate the apex of road junctions, and they demonstrate a departure from the contemporaneously favoured High Victorian Classical to the Queen Anne style in the design of civic buildings.View through the Cotham Road carpark towards High Street of the southeast corner of the former police station. The use of red brick, tall brick chimneys and slate roof were representative of the Queen Ann Style used in the construction of the Kew Public Offices in 1888.public offices -- kew (vic), kew police station -
Port Fairy Historical Society Museum and Archives
Painting, 1 William Street
... Construction date of house depicted1845-1855 for Stonemason... Construction date of house depicted1845-1855 for Stonemason Benjamin ...Construction date of house depicted1845-1855 for Stonemason Benjamin Bowyer. Style Colonial Georgian. Representative of workman's cottage of the 1850'sOil painting by Jean WilsonPainting signed by Jean Wilson 1 William Street Port Fairy on reverse To the Port Fairy History Group from Phillip Ritchie, past owner of 1 William Streetdwelling, housing -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Photograph - Dunstan Estate during construction, Port Melbourne, Department of Public Works, 1936
Twenty five (25) black and white or sepia photographs of the houses of the Dunstan Estate during their building i.e. Griffin Crescent and Southwood Avenue .16 - .25 - photographs of models made by pupils of Architecture at the Department of Public Works . Shows eight types of houses to be erected. Chief Architect Percy E Everett and Henry Pye the Chairman of the Housing Committee built environment - domestic, domestic life, department of public works, dunstan estate, percy e everett, henry pye, albert dunstan -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Functional object - Former Kew Court House : Iron pin, 1888
A civic campaign for new public offices developed in Kew in the 1880s. After much deliberation, the location chosen was the junction of Bulleen and Cotham Roads. The buildings were designed by George Watson and John Henry Harvey, architects within the Department of Public Works (Victoria). Building was commenced in 1887, and after one year, the buildings were opened. The Post Office was transferred to the new Commonwealth Government in 1901. The Police Station and Court House, sold by the Victorian Government to the City of Boroondara in 2007, are now a community cultural centre and performing arts venue.The buildings were listed on the Victorian Heritage Register Register (HO885) in 1991. They are historically and architecturally significant to the State of Victoria because Watson and Harvey's designs exhibit diversity in integrating civil offices, they accommodate the apex of road junctions, and they demonstrate a departure from the contemporaneously favoured High Victorian Classical to the Queen Anne style in the design of civic buildings.Rusted iron pin, the sole remaining example that held the iron finial atop the flèche on the ceiling of the Kew Court House. The pin dates from the building's construction by the Department of Public Works. It was replaced during renovations between 2007-11.architectural fittings, kew court house, iron pin -
The Beechworth Burke Museum
Photograph - Lantern Slide, c1900
This glass slide captures a scene from a male hospital ward at Mayday Hills Mental Asylum. Also known as the Beechworth Lunatic Asylum, Mayday Hills was officially opened on the twenty-fourth of October 1867 and was commissioned following lobbying from Beechworth Municipal Council concerning a need for better living conditions for individuals confined to the town's gaol. These individuals, as well as many others who were brought from surrounding institutions, exhibited behaviours that were deemed to be unfit for mainstream society. At its peak, the asylum consisted of sixty-seven buildings and housed over twelve-hundred patients and five-hundred staff. At the time of Australian Federation in 1901 - just a year after this photograph was taken - the patient population numbered six-hundred and seventy-four. The asylum was officially closed in 1996. It is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register as being architecturally significant. The extensive complex of buildings are examples of Italianate-style, which is strongly associated with asylums of the 1860s - the period in which construction of this particular asylum began. Today the asylum offers tours to visitors, including daytime history tours and night-time ghost tours. Lantern slides, sometimes called 'magic lantern' slides, are glass plates on which an image has been secured for the purpose of projection. Glass slides were etched or hand-painted for this purpose from the Eighteenth Century but the process became more popular and accessible to the public with the development of photographic-emulsion slides used with a 'Magic Lantern' device in the mid-Nineteenth Century. Photographic lantern slides comprise a double-negative emulsion layer (forming a positive image) between thin glass plates that are bound together. A number of processes existed to form and bind the emulsion layer to the base plate, including the albumen, wet plate collodion, gelatine dry plate and woodburytype techniques. Lantern slides and magic lantern technologies are seen as foundational precursors to the development of modern photography and film-making techniques.This glass slide is socially and historically significant as it is representative of the lives of the nurses and patients at Beechworth Mayday Hills Asylum in the early twentieth century. It is also historically significant as it is representative of the changing style of treatments and attitudes towards mental illness. Thin translucent sheet of glass with a circular image printed on the front and framed in a black backing. It is held together by metal strips to secure the edges of the slide.Obverse: h /lantern slide, slide, glass slide, plate, burke museum collection, photograph, monochrome, mayday hills, mayday hills hospital, mayday hills asylum, beechworth lunatic asylum, beechworth mental asylum, psychiatric hostpital, beechworth, burke museum, beechworth municipal council, beechworth patients, psychiatric patients, victorian heritage register, 1900, 1900 mayday hills, italianate style, 19th century asylums, asylums victoria, male ward mayday hills -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Slide - Slide - Construction Portland/Cashmore airport, c. 1980
Coloured slide. Red semi-trailer with "Hoare Bros' painted on side. -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - Mr K. S. Anderson, Sir Robert and Dame Patttie Menzies, Mr ECP Hughes, Mr K. S. Anderson, Sir Robert and Dame Patttie Menzies, Mr ECP Hughes, 1950s
Poss. Port of Portland Collection.4 people standing on clifftop. Overlooking construction of harbour works 1950's. Black and white photo.Front: Sticker - from left Mr K.S. Anderson, Sir Robert Menzies, Dame Pattie Menzies, Mr. E.C.P. Hughes (Chief Engineer) Back: Portland Harbour Trust Commission -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Slide - Slide - construction works, c. 1980
Coloured slide. Narrow trench running south to north, centre of slide. Single pipe in bottom of trench covered in some sort of light coloured material. -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Slide - Slide - Construction Portland/Cashmore Airport, c. 1980
Coloured slide. Deep squirish hole, muddy water in bottom. Rough wooden steps down to water, left hand side of hole. Large concrete pipe on right attached to metal structure which is embedded in bottom of hole. -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Slide - Slide - Construction Portland/Cashmore Airport, c. 1980
Coloured slide. Deep, narrow trench with white pipe laid along bottom. -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Slide - Slide - Construction Portland/Cashmore airport, c. 1980
Coloured slide. A diffrent view of the square concrete drain in 5285. -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Slide - Slide - Construction of Portland Cashmore Airport, 1980s
Port of Portland Authority -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - Aerial view of CSR Softwoods plant, Portland, c. 1974
Port of Portland CollectionFront: (no inscriptions) Back: (no inscriptions)port of portland archives, aerial photography, portland harbour -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Functional object - Lifeboat Wreckage, Coramba Lifeboat piece, 1911
Possibly from the Kurtze collection The 531 ton coastal steamer, the S.S.Coramba, was built in Scotland in 1911 and was lost at sea off Phillip Island on November 30, 1934, during a violent storm. There were no survivors. This starboard lifeboat from the Coramba was found washed up on the southern shores of Phillip Island on November 30, 1934, and was thought to have held two crew members, whose bodies were later found near Forrest Caves. This piece of lifeboat was found among the wreckage on Phillip Island shortly after the vessel sunk in 1934.A section of wreckage from the lifeboat 'Coramba'. This section has been cut from the wreckage. 4 sections of planking. Lapstake construction painted white with the lettered name 'CORAMBA' in black.Front: 'CORAMBA' 'S1' Back: -sscoramba, lifeboat, wreckage, phillip island, kurtze museum -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Plaque, Bronze Plaque, 1950s
Port of Portland CollectionBronze Plaque. Inscribed.Front: 'Portland Harbour Trust Commissioners, 1950' 'The construction of Portland Harbour commenced at this point November 1952'. Back: - -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Plaque, n.d
Port of Portland CollectionBronze plaqueFront: 'The construction of Portland Harbour commenced at this point November 1952'. verso- 'Portland Harbour Trust Commissioners, 1950'port of portland -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph, View of Portland Harbour and Port, c. 1967
Port of Portland Authority archives.Front: (no inscriptions) Back: Pivotport of portland, portland harbour, oil rig -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph, Silo construction, n.d
Port of Portland Authority ArchivesBack: June 9th - pencil. Top left hand cornerport of portland -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph, Main Breakwater Construction, n.d
Port of Portland Archivesport of portland, breakwater construction -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - Construction site, n.d
Port of Portland Authority Archives -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph, Silo construction, 1964
Port of Portland Authority ArchivesBack: Blue Portland Harbour Trust Stamp 176. 13-11-64 in black ink.port of portland -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph, Untitled [Aerial view of construction of CSR Softwood Dartmoor Mill], n.d
Port of Portland Authority archives.Front: (no inscriptions) Back: (no inscriptions)port of portland